On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 05:55 -0500, Alan Cox wrote: > It is actually doing a fair bit - its computing the dependancies, checking it > won't clash, checking the files fit etc Does apt do all of those things every time it starts up? It certainly feels a lot faster, more than I would expect from just the language difference. I wanted to look at the apt-rpm sources, so I googled for "apt rpm cvs" and came up with https://oops.kerneljanitors.org/repos/apt-rpm but I get an error message there. Mitch